Early inscriptions in Oxford

Here is a small selection of early inscriptions from churches in the city of Oxford. Some of them pre-date the surviving burial registers.

Name	Age if given	Date of death	Church	Burial registers date from
Oliver Eborn		1st half 17th C	St Nicholas’s Church, Old Marston	1653
Elizabeth Franklin	23	31 July 1622	Holywell (St Cross)	1653
William Merryman & Anne Merryman	60 (Anne)	1628 1619	Holywell (St Cross)	1653
Elizabeth Parret & Simon Parret		1572 & 1584	St Peter-in-the-East	1559
William Tylcock	74	1578	St Thomas-the-Martyr	1667
John Wallis, gentleman		1678	St Andrew’s Church, Headington	1698